26 May: 13:27 (+1 GMT)

Here’s a news update on the music section.

I’ve started making some songs that could work in a movie later on but these are just experimental. What I’m trying to find out here is how to make the music discrete and how to make it fit in with the movie. Tobias listened to one over the phone, and his comment was "sounds like something from Super Mario Bros.", why thank you friend! Another problem is how you make the music match the movies different events. I guess you’ll have to do some kind of timeline scoring.

As for the real composing I’ve done a new piece now. I found some nice samples from an Hawxtar album I have. Nik Turner (Hawkwind) reads the poem "The great sun jester", this became a really great voice sample after some editing. When I got all the pieces together it became a rather pleasant experience to hear. The track is far from ready, I’ve still got some serious work to do.

/Joel Forsberg

26 May: 13:15 (+1 GMT)

Time for another progress report, I started doing the abdomen of the alien. And here's the picture.

I'd say that the ball has started to roll as I'm really into modeling the alien right now. I'm going away for the weekend and don't know exactly when I'll be back. I'll be taking my computer with me so there should be some really good news in about a week.

Joel played me another song over the phone which sounded pretty good, aside from the fact that he called me around two o'clock in the middle of the night...

/Tobias Boogh

25 May: 00:54 (+1 GMT)

Progress report on the alien, here is a picture of my progress can be viewed here , and here is a picture of the alien in lightwave.

I'm currently working on the upper body in general. I modeled the rib cage first as this is what holds everything together. I'll probably continue on the arms while i'm at it, and they just seem the most fun at the moment. I'm working on an alien page where i'll describe the modeling process in more detail. Expect the new page to be up in a few days.

Well I'm off to bed now, got to get up early in the morning.

If your curious I've found an apartment an I'm moving in on June 13, yay!

/Tobias Boogh

24 May: 01:23 (+1 GMT)

You can disregard my previous post about the progress of the alien. And here's why:

After posting the message below, I started Lightwave again and compared the two models. And I realized I liked the old head more, it may not be true to the movies, but somehow I managed to capture a certain "feel". It just looks more menacing, how it turned out this way I don't know, just call it luck. So the next step is going to be the upper body.

You may be wondering what I'm going to use the alien for, and if your not I'll tell you anyway. After this summer Joel and I will hopefully be enrolled in the same multimedia class. There we will probably have access to some more equipment than we have now, which is basically nonexistent. So our aim is to make a little movie using 3D-graphics (the alien), blue screens to some extent and have the alien rip us to shreds.

Our goal is to use the movie so that Joel and I will learn a few techniques: Matching real camera movement with a virtual camera in lightwave, compositing 3D graphics into video, matching music to acting and how to utilize a blue screen to name a few.

/Tobias Boogh

24 May: 00:27 (+1 GMT)

No update on the Alien, sorry. I have modeled on it today, but I didn't think the progress was anything worth posting, picture wise that is. When I make some real progress you will be the first to know.

A slight update to my post below, It seems that the Matrox G400 is a great card. It seems that it's rivaling the TNT2 actually, even though it hurts a little to say that ;)

/Tobias Boogh

22 May: 16:20 (+1 GMT)

Some of you may be using our new domain name, tincan.txe.org. All I can say is thanks to TXE for the great service!

Guess what tomorrow is... It's 3D modeling day!!! That's right, nothing can hinder me from spending the entire day modeling. So the Sunday deadline still stands, and if you don't see an update then don't sue me, I can't afford it (and you wouldn't win anyway).

And now for a little tech talk.

My plans for future hardware are a dvd drive and maybe a TNT 2. If I buy one, I'll probably buy the other. The dvd drive will probably be a matsushita, they know what there doing and mostly every drive you buy is licensed from them anyway.

For the TNT2 it'll be an ASUS V-3800, why? Well I'll tell you, It uses the TNT2 Ultra chip which is faster and will give me good FPS in mostly anything. It has video In/Out and 3D glasses, what more could I want. It also has Mpeg-2 decoding, also know as DVD. The only thing bad about it is that uses sg-ram, which can't be overclocked that much but it's a little faster than sd-ram. Not like I overclock anything anyway, but it would be nice to have the option.

I've also read allot of anti TNT2, pro Voodoo3 talk on the net, mostly at the Q3arena.com messageboard. Mostly these people are comparing the V3 benchmarks at 16-bit color, to a TNT2 running at 32-bit. Not a fair comparison to say the least. What no benchmark will show is a company's attitude.

Nvidia deliver new cards, with major advances in visual quality and speed. The TNT-2 is fast, looks good (on screen, not the card) and has great support for other usage's than playing games. To name a few: 32-bit color, higher resolutions, textures can be up to 2048x2048 pixels, and it has a OpenGL ICD (fully supports OpenGL).

3Dfx has delivered four chips, the Voodoo1 and 2, the Banshee and the Voodoo3. The V1 and V2 were good cards, the V2 still is even though it is getting dated. The Banshee is basically a V2 with a 2D chip so you only need one card, but it hardly supports glide games and doesn't have OpenGL. The V3 is just more speed, no advances in any other area. It still uses the texture size 512x512, only supports 16-bit color, many of today's games use huge res textures and 32-bit color to give a better gaming experience. Also 3Dfx has yet to deliver any kind of OpenGL support, one of the things I can't live with out.

/Tobias Boogh

21 May: 16:20 (+1 GMT)

All-righty then! Nothing much going on on the 3D front, real life has gotten in the way. I'm going to move to a different city in a couple of weeks, so finding an apartment has been a full time job.

Also my computer has been giving me hell. Every now and then when I'm doing something that's graphically intensive, my computer will slow down, and the power light will start blinking. And I just got the damn thing this winter!!! What's wrong with the world.

I'm going to return my computer for repairs on Tuesday, o between Tuesday and whenever there won't be any updates to this page. Oh well, I'll just have to agonize my neighbors by playing Jimi Hendrix, very loudly of course...

/Tobias Boogh

17 May: 10:32 (+1 GMT)

As you all may have noticed there isn't that much content on this page right now. I thought I would explain why.

After redesigning the site I decided that the gallery was so old, that it didn't think it reflected my current work. And as the current work is a lot more complex it's not possible to update the gallery that often.

The gallery will be updated though, I can promise you that.

As for the music section...

/Tobias Boogh

I got some new great pictures of aliens from Newborn() today (thanks). So now I have great reference for the body so I can get started on that.

I've also started redoing the head from scratch. The previous one was okay but careless modeling from my part and bad planning made it hard to edit. Not to worry though, it shouldn't take me more than three days to get the head finished.

The body is pretty complex, but that just adds to the "damn I'm good" feeling when I'm done ;-)

And I'm still waiting for Joel to send me the music page so we can get that going.

Side note: The sign-up for beta testing Rogue Spear: the sequel to Rainbow Six starts today.

Have a good day...
And if you see a puddle of drool on the ground, run! Y'all know who's hanging from the ceiling.

/Tobias Boogh